Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Previously MLMSkeptic has covered the various scams pumped by noted scammer Sann Rodrigues, whose real name is Sanderlay Rodrigues de Vasconcelos. For those who haven't caught up, here's a quick summary:

After TelexFree went bust in April 2014, it appears that Sann Rodrigues was still traveling the world, still selling TelexFree, but is looking for another scam to promote, and he seem to be the first person EVER to promote iFreeX as of September 2014, which, based on the name, appears to be at least inspired by, if not an outright clone of TelexFree, as it claims to be a communications app to do voice and text chat, video talk, and video conference. (TelexFree was VOIP, which is voice chat) There are many who suspect that Sann Rodrigues was the real founder of iFreeX (though the real founder had not been identified thus far).

Sometime after this, Sann Rodrigues apparently smuggled himself out of Brazil, violating the Brazil judicial order for him to stay put. This is serious enough, that the Brazilian police added him to an Interpol wanted list known as "red notice" (search for "vasconcelos") :

After that, nothing is heard of Sann Rodrigues except untraceable Facebook posts. That is, until his FB feed stopped updating on May 16th.

Sann Rodrigues claimed he doesn't have the money for bail. On June 26th, his wife Camila finally coughed up the 200K for bond, and Sann Rodrigues may finally be released on bail... But apparently not, as the Brazilian authorities, hearing about Sann Rodrigues' arrest, invoked their Interpol wanted notice and Sann Rodrigues was arrested right after he was "released" from ICE custody.

It is unknown if Sann Rodrigues will be extradited as there's no official extradition treaty between US and Brazil. However, mutual police cooperation through Interpol is often done despite lack of such treaty.

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